期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
卷 106, 期 -, 页码 39-44出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2022.08.035
关键词
Antibiotic clinical practice guidelines; Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial stewardship; Bloodstream infection; Sepsis; Multidrug resistant microorganisms
资金
- European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (TV)
Internal Medicine wards, emergency departments, and intensive care units are key areas for antibiotic stewardship, with personalized prescriptions, rapid diagnostic tests, and multidisciplinary approaches being essential for improving the appropriateness and safety of antibiotic use.
Internal Medicine wards are an appropriate focus of antibiotic stewardship, along with emergency departments and intensive care units, because a large proportion of patients are with parenteral broad-spectrum antibiotics. Given the unmet clinical need of antibiotic optimization in the hospital and the importance of front-line prac-titioners for antibiotic stewardship, the barriers and tactics to overcome them were discussed in a round table at the European Congress of Internal Medicine. Better rapid diagnostic tests should help to increase appropriate early antibiotic rates, favoring diversity in antibiotic choices adapted to the awareness of local resistance pat-terns. Providing such is a greater challenge in low-resource settings. Prescriptions should be personalized, adjusting dosage and source control to specific patients' conditions. Shorter antibiotic duration and de-escalation are major drivers to reduce adverse events, with mortality and recurrence rates being independent of antimi-crobial duration. Appropriate diagnostic tests with quick turnaround times decrease excessive antibiotic use. Antimicrobial optimization requires a multidisciplinary approach and it should be a core competence of training specialists, improving opportunities to provide safer patient care.
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